Auf der Sonnenseite (1962) Duration: 1H41M Description: The story of the steel smelter, Martin Hoff, whose factory sends him to a drama school, corresponds to the real life of the actor, Manfred Krug. Like his character, Krug worked as a steel smelter, did artwork, sang and acted, and ….. Trailer ↗ East Germany 1962 Comedy […]
Category: East Germany
Suse, liebe Suse (1975)
Suse, liebe Suse (1975) Duration: Description: Suse works as a truck driver on a major construction site. The young woman has a hard life behind her. She was foundling, was raised by farmers. Manne, the father of her child, wanted to escape from the GDR and is in prison. After….. Trailer ↗ East Germany 1975 […]
Käthe Kollwitz (1986)
Käthe Kollwitz (1986) Duration: 1H36M Description: Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the German army in WWI and was killed two weeks later. This painful tragedy changed Kol….. Trailer ↗ East Germany 1986 Biography Drama History
Die Fahne von Kriwoj Rog (1967)
Trini (1979)
Meine Stunde Null (1970)
Sie kannten sich alle (1958)
Das Lied vom Trompeter (1964)
Das Lied vom Trompeter (1964) Duration: 1H25M Description: Fritz Weineck, a worker’s son from Halle, loves music – and dreams to make a living out of it one day. When his friend Alfons, a World War I veteran, gives him a trumpet as a gift, Fritz seems to come closer to fulfill his dream… Trailer […]
Die schöne Lurette (1960)
Das russische Wunder II (1963)
Die Entscheidung des Dr. Ahrendt (1960)
Wir lassen uns scheiden (1968)
Wir lassen uns scheiden (1968) Duration: 1H31M Description: The eight-year-old son of a young married couple takes advantage of the parents’ different and inconsistent parenting practices. At the end of a temporary separation, during which the son spends four weeks with his mother and four….. Trailer ↗ East Germany 1968
Pension Boulanka (1964)
Das Pferdemädchen (1979)
Das Pferdemädchen (1979) Duration: 1H25M Description: The story plays in the countryside of north east Germany. Irka, a young girl lives with her father on a farm when they decide to buy a mare called Raya. She used to be a great show horse but now was old and almost blind. Neverthel….. Trailer ↗ East […]
Die Mutter (1958)
Die Mutter (1958) Duration: 2H27M Description: Bertolt Brecht’s grand epic of political theater, written in 1931, is an adaptation of Maxim Gorki’s novel by the same title. It tells the moving story of an oppressed Russian woman who is transformed into a militant revolutionary….. Trailer ↗ East Germany 1958 Drama
Wengler & Söhne (1987)
Wengler & Söhne (1987) Duration: 2H19M Description: This film tells a story spanning three generations, from 1871 to 1945. After the farmer’s son, Gustav Wengler, returns from the Franco-German war in 1871, he goes to work in a precision mechanics and optical company. He soon becom….. Trailer ↗ East Germany 1987 Drama History
Der Traum vom Elch (1986)
Der Traum vom Elch (1986) Duration: 1H27M Description: Anna and Anette’s choices of male lovers is as limited as their choices in everyday life: a technocrat, a self-absorbed artist, or a married man. As in melodrama, self-destruction proves a catalyst for self-discovery. Featuring Ka….. Trailer ↗ East Germany 1986 Drama